This is what the NHS in Britain wanted the last sixty years. If you didn't weigh what they said you should, everyone has been conditioned to ostracize you as obese. This would be how they could check on everybody.

Leo Laporte got one of those scales back around Christmas and went on a very public diet. I haven't looked at his scale tweets in a long time but I just did and I see he's actually above where he started. Oh well. Public humiliation was not enough incentive.http://twitter.com/leos_scale